ROBINSON v. STATE

No. 1074S220.

317 N.E.2d 850 (1974)

Thelma ROBINSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

October 31, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis E. Zahn, Symmes, Fleming, Ober & Symmes, Indianapolis, for appellant.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., Wesley T. Wilson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


ARTERBURN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was tried by a jury on an indictment charging her with second degree murder in the death of her fifteen-month-old son. The jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The Court sentenced her to imprisonment for not less than two years nor more than twenty-one years. On appeal, the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court for the failure of the trial court to give a tendered instruction to the effect that if motive had not...

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